Beaverium lantanae (Eggers, 1930)

Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2020, A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China, ZooKeys 983, pp. 1-442 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7DED4CE2-934C-4539-945F-758930C927F9

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4216C47F-4A54-BA5D-FCFC-C30163170D57

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scientific name

Beaverium lantanae (Eggers, 1930)
status

 

Beaverium lantanae (Eggers, 1930) Fig. 31A, B, G View Figure 31

Xyleborus lantanae Eggers, 1930: 180.

Ambrosiodmus lantanae (Eggers): Wood and Bright 1992: 675.

Beaverium lantanae (Eggers): Beaver et al. 2014: 32.

Type material.

Holotype (FRI).

New records.

Vietnam: Dong Nai, Cat Tien National Park, E of Crocodile Lake, 11°27'25"N, 107°21'7"E, 120 m, ex pan trap, 21-31.v.1999, D.C. Darling, B. Hubley (RABC, 1).

Diagnosis.

4.1-4.5 mm long (mean = 4.26 mm; n = 5); 2.2-2.28 × as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the small size; elytral disc convex, without a transverse saddle-like depression; declivital posterolateral margins costate, never carinate; and boundary between elytral disc and declivity smoothly rounded.

Similar species.

Beaverium latus , B. magnus .

Distribution.

India (Karnataka, Nicobar Is, West Bengal), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam*.

Host plants.

Recorded from six genera in five families in India ( Beeson 1961), and evidently polyphagous.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Scolytinae

Genus

Beaverium